Stardance 2023

• Own-rooted Pommard clone planted in 2003.
• Steep, due-east aspect surrounded by forest in the Coast Range foothills.
• Rocky clay, sandstone and basaltic soils with decomposed volcanic material.
• The 2023 bottling is Audeant's inaugural Stardance Vineyard release.

• Fully destemmed: 0% whole cluster.
• Cool, gentle extraction using pump-overs and light, targeted pigeage.
• Fifteen-day cuvaison, then pressed to French oak without settling.
• Bottled unfined and unfiltered.

Seventeen months in French oak, 33% new and 67% neutral. The cellar work is calibrated to preserve the vineyard's brooding fruit, rocky depth and soft tannin.

Brooding black fruit meets tea-like savor and a rocky undertone. The palate is shaped by soft, lilting tannins that echo the sheltered, easterly site and give the wine both depth and graceful movement.

• Inaugural single-vineyard release from a forest-enclosed foothill site.
• Own-rooted Pommard delivers distinctive site and clonal character.
• No whole cluster keeps the focus on fruit, soil and supple tannin.